Thought Police
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title:
Thought Police
text:
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police are the secret police of the superstate of Oceania, who discover and punish thoughtcrime. Using criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance the Thinkpol monitor the citizens of Oceania and arrest all those who have committed thoughtcrime in challenge to the status quo authority of the Party and of the régime of Big Brother. Orwell's concept of "policing thought" derived from the intellectual self-honest
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Secret police of Oceania in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police
date created:
2004-10-16T01:56:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T02:12:26Z
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